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  1. He's got a bright future after the Bengals cut him. He can join OANN to cover the coronavirus.
  2. I would too but I don't believe he is measured in his criticism/commentary and I think there is a showman mentality in him that wants attention and the cameras I believe feed into his narcissism. He does have experience, that much is granted but his track record is fairly spotty as well. Not exactly Millburyish but not too far away from a Peter Chiarelli.
  3. I was glad to hear that Podkolzin was going to stay in Russia. The outcome hasn't been great for a lot of Russians who came over to NA early ala. Grigorenko.
  4. From everything I have read, the only player we had ahead of Petey was Makar. Keep in mind that Patrick had an injury history early into his junior career. He was considered the presumptive 1st overall pick and people were wondering if his injuries would prevent him even playing a game in the NHL. I would not be surprised if multiple teams had him on the dreaded DND list.
  5. Thing with luck is, eventually it runs out. A pandemic comes along and the cap stays flat. Now you have got ~5M in dead cap (Baerstchi, Spooner, Luongo), and bonus overage on rookie contracts to deal with. A few key players need to be signed to new contracts with limited cap space and there are a few contracts on the payroll that are difficult to move without retention. I don't envy Chris Gear as he tries to navigate through this mine field. I think it will be skill not luck that gets out of this unscathed (ie. Not losing a core player ala Brock)
  6. JJ Reddick is such an idiot, two cupcakes getting criticism because they tucked their tails between their legs and ran to super teams to win titles has a lot to do with racism. Even if there was an element of racism to this, who cares? Both those guys are multi-millionaires, the outcome has been a positive one in both cases. If you are going to feel guilt for anyone JJ, lets talk about the people who are actually suffering and victimized due to racism.
  7. You will have to define what a 'meh' type player is. I agree that Bonino had a great contract, but that would be more of use to a contender than what we were at the time which was an over the hill team coming off a bad year. Sbisa was a 3rd pairing defenseman, who Ducks fans at the time were glad to be rid of. Keep in mind Anaheim had a wealth of top prospects at the time, Gibson, Rakell, Karlsson, Palmieri, Etem, 10th overall pick (Ritchie), Theodore etc. The package at the deadline was futures focused, so we basically passed up on some decent assets to start a rebuild just so we could find poor man's replacements for Kesler and Garrison so that we could infuse some playoff revenue in the owner's bank account. We will agree to disagree on Aquilini's motives, I believe it had little to nothing to do with the Sedins and more with trying to sell tickets/revenue. I can't trust Aquilini regarding the meddling, it has happened far too often in the past for me to trust that it won't still happen again. I just hope Benning is strong enough to say no like Nonis did with the Richards trade. Running the Canucks is a whole lot easier than Islanders (arena issues) or the Thrashers who were an ownership trying to establish their franchise in a non-traditional market. Imho the Canucks wouldn't achieve much worse results under different ownership.
  8. Ownership I think has more to do than just spending money. Vancouver is also one of the bigger markets in the league so its easier to spend to the cap. Lets take the Pegulas for instance who have spent millions not only on the roster but also in developing the land around the arena, the new facilities they have built. Sabres fans were initially floored by the financial might that the Pegulas were displaying but its gone the other way for them since. I am just saying that "willing to spend money" would have been nice when we could have used a compliance buyout on Luongo. Other than that the franchise had a day of mourning when Gagner passed through waivers, Benning had to call and console the owner. I think you have to look at ownership as the one that sets the direction the franchise heads in and the previous GM is on the record stating that he advised the owner that the best course moving forward was to rebuild. The coach at the time made public remarks about the core of the team being "stale". One of the core players (Kesler) wanted out and the owner vetoes a trade at the deadline, then you hire a new GM and put him in a spot where he has to get what he can. Bob Murray later admits that he had a much better offer on the table at the deadline. Next we sign Vrbata and Miller, trade Garrison for a pick, trade that pick and 3rd for Vey and Dorsett. Instead of getting futures for Kesler, we get Bonino and Sbisa, signalling that we have no intention of rebuilding. I firmly believe Aquilini is more responsible for this franchise's missteps than Benning in large part because he was the one setting the course.
  9. Tanev mentions that Jake was tested twice and both tests were negative. Looks like the testing protocol does try to compensate for the inaccuracy of the tests.
  10. I don't consider Luongo's actions "honourable" as the OP describes it. I don't think he is necessarily a selfish person either, but what he did to me can only be described as self-serving. There is nothing imho in this action by Luongo for me to "honour" as a Canucks fan, when it directly hurts the Canucks ability to compete in the coming years. I agree that it doesn't blemish his achievements here. Just like Kesler choosing to go out the way he did doesn't diminish what he did for us. I just disagree with you that he doesn't deserve blame for this. My list of blame (in no particular order) is a lot longer than yours. Luongo (for taking the job), the Panthers (for offering the job), Aquilini (for not spending his millions on a compliance buyout), Tortorella (for pissing off Luongo by not starting him in the outdoor game), MG (for not foreseeing the disaster that was offering a goalie that term), Aquilini again (From what I read he was the driving force behind that contract). The league, Bettman and the CBA negotiations were external factors that were outside of the Canucks control. They set the rules that everybody has to agree to and live by, so its not like the Canucks were going to be only team affected by the new rules. I am more focused on the actions of the Canucks because that part was still under our purview. We did have to retain money in order to trade him because no one was willing to accept that contract at its full cap hit. Both Nonis and Talon wanted retention, so I can see where the "untradable" part came from, Luongo himself admitted his contract "sucks". Wasn't an ideal situation but like you said we did get Markstrom out of it, unfortunately it now hinders our ability to re-sign him.
  11. Mahomes got everything handed to him on a silver platter. Santa (Andy Reid) came down his chimney and left him some presents (Hill, Kelce, Watkins. et al).
  12. As it is my understanding Luongo retired because he was getting a front office job with the Panthers. Had he gone on LTIR he would have cost the Panthers money, had he gone on LTIR on the Canucks payroll then he was ineligible to take a job with the Panthers. So he chose the route he did out of self-serving reasons not due to some "honourable approach". On one hand I accept that he did not owe us anything yet I can't help but feel annoyed. I think he is a likeable person but I am no longer a fan anymore because I see him as a Florida Man now and a Panther for life. I sincerely hope the Panthers continue to play in half-empty stadiums wallowing in irrelevance. As an aside, Chris Pronger took a job with the DOPS while being employed by the Coyotes, this was considered permissible by the league. We shall see but my guess is Weber will take the money to sit at home like 99% of the guys that go on LTIR. They get to keep collecting the last of the pay cheques while helping to avoid the recapture, its a win-win both ways.
  13. You lose a lot of the privilege that comes with anonymity as a professional athlete. You have to best version of yourself, whenever there is a camera pointed at you, something the average Joe does not have to worry about. It isn't supposed to be easy, and sacrifices have to be made. That's what Linden and the Sedins embodied in their time here, they sacrificed for their teammates and in turn became examples for the rest of the organization to live up to. Jake has been here long enough now that he should be one of the leaders in that lockerroom and not a guy that the organization has to publicly address, whether it be because of this video or his fitness.
  14. I believe that was the whole reason for the video. This was Jake going on camera dunking on a KHLer for insulting his friends. Its just the kind of stupid thing young people are taught is "cool" on social media. I don't see this as an issue of 'intelligence' like some are making it out to be, I think its just immaturity. I just hope he grows out of faster than the team gets tired of him.
  15. A nanny state is only necessarily because of harebrained 'muh freedom' dumbasses, ie. clowns who think they are 'rebels'. In normal circumstances no one would pay them any attention, but now these people feel empowered because their actions have direct and disastrous consequences on others. Its a nirvana for these assholes looking for attention,
  16. I bet we see another "suicide". Trump, Clinton, Royal family, nobody wants to see this rock overturned.
  17. Holy crap I think I just got a massive Kassian deja vu.
  18. I think Jake was trying to get a dig in at Leipsic with his "worst crew ever" hat. I have no problem with it I just think his agent needs to turn off the data plan on his phone.
  19. While I do agree this is part of the problem, I believe the bigger issue in the USA is the politicization of masks. You have people being fed propaganda making masks an issue of civil liberty. If Trump had gone the same route as Ford and encouraged the use of masks, you would see much less push back. If Trump had condemned the fools who thought they knew better than the experts, it would have further diminished these incidents. Heck Trump could have sold MAGA masks and, made masks a patriotic duty if he had wanted to.
  20. Tampa is paying 43 old Tom Brady 18M more than Cam Newton. BB is a god damn wizard.
  21. The lottery is run by one of the big law firms Ernst and Young. If the league was rigging the lottery they wouldn't have given pick after pick to the Oilers. Occam's razor, the simplest explanation is most likely to be the truth.The lottery is just incompetence on the league's part not some kind of nefarious plot.
  22. https://c2cjournal.ca/2013/10/the-genocide-that-failed/ To be fair to Kenney it is Alberta, I am sure you can find lots of douchebags but how many can write in proper sentence structure while expressing pride for our "peaceful, tolerant, pluralistic history and values". How many people would be proud of physical abuse, sexual abuse, trauma, neglect, malnutrition etc? Not too many, but according to Paul at least we weren't lynching and slaughtering people like the Americans.
  23. Taking emotion out of it? Of course. I think people might not realize how good PLD already is, not to mention the Canucks coveted PLD at the 2016 draft.
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